FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gail Hurley (860 704-2223) Gail.Hurley@ct.gov Contact: Robert Kinney (860 757-6668) Robert.Kinney@ct.gov Date: August 10, 2022 NEWS Connecticut State Library Announces Historic Newspaper Titles to be Digitized (Hartford, CT) The Connecticut State Library is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gail Hurley (860) 704-2223 Gail.Hurley@ct.gov Date: October 7, 2021 (Hartford CT) – The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has received a supplemental award of $147,734 from the National...
Introduction Beginning in 1918 and continuing into 1919, the global influenza epidemic raged. It was known at the time as the “Spanish Flu,” due to the widespread but erroneous belief that the disease had...
By Allison Horrocks In 1915, Booker T. Washington, the so-called “Wizard of Tuskegee” gave his last public talk while on tour in Connecticut. This was not Washington’s first time in Connecticut. Over the course...
By Mary Margaret Mahoney The United States mobilized quickly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on April 2, 1917. Troops travelled to the front with the help of massive mobilization efforts to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gail Hurley (860 704-2222) Gail.Hurley@ct.gov Contact: Robert Kinney (860 757-6668) Robert.Kinney@ct.gov Date: March 6, 2018 NEWS Connecticut State Library Announces 25 Historic Newspaper Titles to be Digitized (Hartford,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gail Hurley (860 704-2222) Gail.Hurley@ct.gov Contact: Robert Kinney (860 757-6668) robert.kinney@ct.gov Date: December 1, 2017 NEWS Connecticut State Library Announces Newest Newspaper Titles Digitized (HARTFORD,...
The Newtown Bee, The Bee and The Newtown Chronicle Newtown, Connecticut town historian Daniel Cruson placed the birth of the Newtown Bee in 1870 within New England’s post-Civil War florescence of small rural weeklies. It was one...
(Hartford, CT) The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has digitized the New Haven Daily morning journal and courier from 1895-1907 and its successor The morning journal-courier 1907-1908. These and other...